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@tolkienofcolourweek 2024 Day 3: Friendship & Love ⇢ Nimrodel & Mithrellas

The Elven-lady Mithrellas was one of the companions of Nimrodel, among many of the Elves that fled to the coast about the year 1980 of the Third Age, when evil arose in Moria; and Nimrodel and her maidens strayed in the wooded hills of Gondor, and were lost.

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my mum was googling for an article about why everyone in the lord of the rings film is white (like to be clear she was annoyed by this) and the google ai was apparently like “everybody in the lord of the rings is not white. gandalf is grey.”

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I know most people love the witch king moment but for me the scenes that live in my mind rent free are when Eowyn’s drowning in her bitterness over the suffocating experience of being a woman [redraw] 

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My two last neurons, I love them dearly

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Helm’s Deep by J.R.R. Tolkien

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really underrated part of the LotR films is when gollum gets exposition lines. like can you imagine? you're travelling with the most fucked-up evil little murder greyhound creature imaginable and he lives in a cave and doesn't know about potatoes but from time to time you have to ask him about local geopolitics. and he answers you

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Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013)

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Despair, or folly?' said Gandalf. 'It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.' '

At least for a while,' said Elrond. 'The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strenght nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien

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a true story

(with much love to the exceedingly patient @a-cat-of-many-colors, @nobelinstupidity, @thecorruptedquietone, and @mywombatcheesecake)

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merry the fellowship leaves rivendell day to all who celebrate it

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Ost-in-Edhil (2024)

Limited edition lino print

21x21 cm

My version of Celebrimbor's city before its fall.

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These lines (first from the films, thereafter from the books) taught me something profoundly essential about how to be there for a friend, a lover, or a loved one when they are consumed by despair, weighed down by grief, or overwhelmed by the weight of mental torment. It taught me that some burdens are sacredly personal; untransferable tasks that each of us must face in our own time and way.

Yet, while we cannot take their pain or carry their burden for them (no matter how much we wish we could), there is something else we can do. While we cannot lift their burden, we can lift them. We can carry their weary body, their weary heart, as they bear the weight of their pain. In doing so, we offer them a sanctuary — a place of care and safety, where they can begin to confront their hurt without the fear of being alone in its gaze.

While the pain may be theirs to bear, the journey through it need not be traveled in solitude.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, I love you.

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For some reason when I saw this on my dash, the first thing I imagined was Legolas and Gimli sizing each other up to decide which one Aragorn considered most expendable

Also see: Gandalf’s patience with the hobbits at every point of the journey, sending people back to the shire in sacks, threatening to throw hobbits into wells, etc etc

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001 | dir. Peter Jackson

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Rereading The Hobbit, like you do, and when the party gets to Rivendell the narrator says “I wish I had time to tell you even a few of the tales or one or two of the songs that they heard in that house.”

And like. Jirt. My man.

I know it’s for narrative effect, but nothing I have ever read in my entire life has been less believable than Tolkien himself writing that he doesn’t have time to include a song.